Position Overview
**DESCRIPTION**
Ortho Experience Preferred
**Clinic Assistance**
+ Perform complete physical exams, pre-operative and post-operative evaluations, and record findings.
+ Order and interpret diagnostic studies (i.e. x-rays, MRIs, CTs and serum/join fluid labs, Dexa Scans, Vascular Doppler)
+ Establish a diagnosis, determine a treatment plan, implement the necessary ancillaries, order additional and selective studies or laboratory evaluations.
+ Consult with specialists and interventional physicians, as predicated by the case’s diagnosis and severity.
+ Assist in reduction of fractures and dislocations.
+ Provide minor office surgical care (i.e. toenail removal, suturing)
+ Apply and remove casts, splints, and immobilizing devices, remove sutures or staples, change dressings, on patients and draw up injections.
+ Administer injections, immunizations, oral medications, aspirations of joints, suture wounds, wound debridement, and other clinic proced...